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Love is a reciprocal torture.

Is the intention pure selfless and born out of love? Is it based on truth? Does it result in peace? If so it is a right action.

The desire for possession is insatiable to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love therefore is to sterilize the person one loves.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love you'll never make it.

Love begins with an image, lust with a sensation.

Night the beloved. Night when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

We must declare ourselves become known, allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love but the emotion itself.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile, esteem without love is languid and cold.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

There is a loving relationship between the Creator and the Creation.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Heart is the centre of Love and peace.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman, they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Love...doesn't allow any room for pettiness or narrow outlook.

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side and who would say nothing behind his back he might not in love say before his face.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

As I got older I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Love expands, it does not limit itself to boundaries.

When Love can bring even God nearer to you how can it fail where man is involved?

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

I just want everyone in ths room to know that courtney love of the pop group hole is the best fuck in the world

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef, love like being enlivened with champagne.

My God these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

We love to expect and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified we want to be again expecting.

They died hard those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy and they were lousy and they stunk. And I loved them.

For true love is inexhaustible, the more you give the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead the more water you draw the more abundant is its flow.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character that they think no evil of the object loved.

Love it has been said flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents, and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Love your neighbor as yourself, but don't take down the fence.

I love not man the less but Nature more.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch which hurts and is desired.

If Jesus was here do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.

Emo Philips

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years it is difficult for an actress.

Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty character integrity faith love and loyalty.

I love doing normal things - movies shopping going out with friends writing reading taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

All everything that I understand I understand only because I love.

I just want to do what I do best and that's fight. I love it.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count and cry over them once a week

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

If the king loves music there is little wrong in the land.

Love of the country is the basis on which you can build love for the world community.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

I like not only to be loved but also to be told I am loved.

Of all the human values three are most important. The foremost is love of God. Where there is love there is sacrifice. There arises purity of heart. There should be a fusion of love sacrifice and purity. They are not mere human qualities. They constitute vital organs of a human being. They are as essential for a human being as the head hands and legs for the body. Without these attributes no one is a complete human being.

Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.

Love to his soul gave eyes, he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life, the world around him is the dream.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love, there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god, but who knows my god?

Guilt for being rich and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

I really love idiot enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances, they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Love is an interesting thing.

Constancy... that small change of love which people exact so rigidly receive in such counterfeit coin and repay in baser metal.

Love is the basis of all forms of worship of which Abraham was the human prototype.

See the Divine in everyone. Eschew hatred and ill will. After years of devotion many still lack a broad outlook and an all-encompassing love.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

God is without birth and death and is an eternal witness, you must strive hard to earn the love of God.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

For what is love itself for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round so I am a huge fan of tanning products.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Expect for one I do not ask for anything. That which I ask in for is your love That I gave to you before time began as your sole possession.

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Such a one do I remember whom to look at was love.

The speaking in perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground, they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

The sword outwears its sheath and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe and love itself have rest.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

That saying about how you always kill the thing you love well it works both ways.

Chuck Palahniuk

Oh that lovely title ex-president.

If you love it enough anything will talk with you.

Love is the light that guides the feet of man in the wilderness.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

White is actually one of my favorite colors. I have a white car. I love white.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Love as Understanding is Peace.

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society it is a good thing if you possess great talent to give early in your youth a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that be a snob.

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

I've always loved a challenge.

God will show His love. He is kind to all.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have so to speak pawned a part of their narcissism.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself totally against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender which is love.

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

When love once pleads admission to our hearts / In spite of all the virtue we can boast / The woman that deliberates is lost.

Those whose suffering is due to love are as we say of certain invalids their own physicians.

Business underlies everything in our national life including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

I tell ya if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved -- to teach it probably ... Language has always fascinated me. There's a genetic inheritance there ... a good language gene which I inherited [from my mother and grandfather] and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her.

I loved writing for kids I loved talking to children about what I'd written I don't want to leave that behind.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

Fate loves the fearless.

Consult your friend on all things especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

I never cut class. I loved getting A's I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

I'm a fry lover.

If a man wants to cultivate human values he has to apply the manure of spirituality to his heart water it with love so that human values will grow.

Only enemies speak the truth, friends and lovers lie endlessly caught in the web of duty.

To love is to act.

We are not the same persons this year as last, nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we changing continue to love a changed person.

The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Love alone can overcome obstacles however many and mighty.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

The essentials to happiness are something to love something to do and something to hope for.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

It's not just about acting. I love film I'm a director now I love writing I love producing I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

Love is union with somebody or something outside oneself under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person.

There is no living being without the spark of love, even a mad man loves something or somebody.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

I know of only one duty and that is to love.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love, so that for want of true objects they must attach themselves to false.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant of interest easy and where both meet happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship all the enjoyments of sense and reason and

[Bryant said he wouldn't mind playing for Jackson again.] I'm just right down the middle man ... It doesn't matter to me. I'd love him as a coach. It doesn't matter to me. If they want him here he'll be here. If he wants to come he'll come he'll coach and we'll go from there.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift passed civilization by rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.

Do not throw coins when beggars stretch their hands for alms, help them to become self-reliant. Provide food and shelter love and care for the sick and aged.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him but out of his side to be equal with him under his arm to be protected by him and near his heart to be loved by him.

It is better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk, he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.

Love and do what you like.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he's going to do, even when it's hard - especially when it's hard.

The more connections you and your lover make not just between your bodies but between your minds your hearts and your souls the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship and the more real moments you will experience together.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods There is a rapture on the lonely shore There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea and music in its roar: I love not man the less but Nature more.

I want the concentration and the romance and the worlds all glued together fused glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.

For one human being to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks the ultimate the last test and proof the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I am in you and you in me mutual in divine love.

For love is immortality.

Personally I just think rap music is the best thing out there period. If you look at my deck in my car radio you're always going to find a hip-hop tape, that's all I buy that's all I live that's all I listen to that's all I love.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences to write about them to get them out of my system to not get sick and then to share them publicly.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things but only what is just whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

There are fathers who do not love their children, there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Jesus didn't say 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said 'Blessed are we where we are poor where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Tacking on the kiss at the end made it too romantic, much more like a Victorian or 20th-century story, rather than the early 19th-century story that it really is.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone love them with all your soul. When you go to work work your ass off. When you hate someone hate them until it hurts.

Henry Rollins

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants and giraffes and crocodiles and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children and enjoy it.

Spiritual discipline grows only in a field fertilized by Love.

Love is the one wild card.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together, every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.

O Man! Thou feeble tenant of an hour Debased by slavery or corrupt by power, Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust Degraded mass of animated dust! Thy love is lust thy friendship all a cheat Thy smiles hypocrisy thy word deceit! By n

Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together but do so with all your heart.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Who is wise in love love most say least.

Look at the world with the vision of peace love and compassion. Then the whole world will appear loving and peaceful.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable, and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Adore Him(GOD) placing a garland of tears around His neck, washing His feet with tears springing from joy at the contemplation of His Love! That very worship will endow you with the wisdom that Sages seek and the Bliss that the Books extol!

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old his coat worn his cloak was out at the elbows the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

People react to fear not love, they don't teach that in Sunday School but it's true.

The love that exists between wife and husband is infatuation. The love that exists among friends and relations is attachment. The love towards material objects is desire. Love in totality directed towards God is known as devotion.

The countless gold of a merry heart The rubies and pearls of a loving eye The indolent never can bring to the mart Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.

He [Darcy] expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man in violent love can be supposed to.

Lord grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it and I love that you know.

Love often leads on to ambition but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

All mankind love a lover.

When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

He would make a lovely corpse.

In ambition as in love the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

When I get up and work out I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly who invests in them but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

Michelle Obama

Love rules the court the camp the grove And men below and saints above: For love is heaven and heaven is love.

They're right to think that about me because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps, with it alone she lives.

Love God with all your heart With all your soul

WHEN you stand before another his image is in your eye and your image is in his, have you not observed this? You are in Him I am in you that is the Truth this phenomenon proclaims. When you believe in this and when you cultivate Love Humility Reverence for Life and Tolerance you are on the Right Path. When you are not on this Path that is to say when you are traveling left you are certainly left out when it is a question of sharing Divine Grace.

Italy and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

Passion is momentary, love is enduring.

Love gives and never receives.

This love is silent.

Ardor n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart or its flame burns low.

Where to start? ... This has been a long love-hate relationship between myself and the French.

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute for half an hour for a day for a month but I can give. I am very happy to do that I want to do that.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it, or worse they might.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize, so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

One who is full of love attains The states of Oneness with Him.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive you're negative. You absorb absorb as if you must fill yourself up with love because you've got a shortage somewhere.

David Herbert Lawrence

Love is all you need.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

When health prevails vitality pervades both mind and body.By the process of loving service you can become the promoters of much joy.Do not consider any act of service as demeaning!

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

I love to hit people. I love to.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Embodiments of love! Promote love in your hearts incessantly love that is immortal and infinite.

If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion then you are God.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Love seeketh not itself to please nor for itself hath any care but for another gives its ease and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Study nature love nature stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Self-love for ever creeps out like a snake to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right we lose an unhappy marriage as well and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered what a lovely adventure begins hurricanes and all.

Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America when we are anywhere when we see a group of people such as this or anywhere we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims.

What is meant by the phrase to know GOD ? It means to love GOD .

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Men often pass from love to ambition but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

Love is life for man and love is everything in this world.

In love unlike most other passions the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense, and contemplation, and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it it's much more exciting.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

I just love acting.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

I love the name of honor more than I fear death.

The Divine Will operating through the force of love does all this. For example though there are thousands gathered here absolute silence prevails. Under what compulsion? Only the compulsion of love. In other places where a hundred people collect a hundred and fifty constables are present to keep them quiet.

Say what you will 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

Love we say is life, but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.

Faith in ourselves and faith in God this is the secret of Greatness for God is Love.

I am the embodiment of Love, Love is my instrument.

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance but with somebody else.

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

Love turns with a little indulgence to indifference or disgust, hatred alone is immortal.

By all but the pathologically romantic it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Grumbling is the death of love.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.

Marriage is not a noun, it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

You can give without loving but you can never love without giving.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

Gustave Flaubert

Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service to others and held such a simple faith that she had no fears at all and did not seem to mind very much.

I want people to love me but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

Cherish your visions, cherish your ideals, cherish the music that stirs in your heart the beauty that forms in your mind the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts for out of them will grow delightful conditions all heavenly environment, of these if you but remain true to them your world will at last be built.

Young poets bewail the passing of love, old poets the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

Reason is not what decides love.

Action with love is right conduct. Speak with love and it becomes truth. Thinking with love results in peace. Understanding with love leads to non-violence. For everything love is primary. Where there is love there is no place for hatred.

Whatever books you may read you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. One must put it into practice. That sense of oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love and not by any other means.

I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.

Fail at love and the other tests don't matter.

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